Valentina Rapetti

Valentina Rapetti

Università della Tuscia

Valentina Rapetti lectures in English and American literature at Università degli Studi della  Tuscia. Her publications include articles on Toni Morrison, Djanet Sears, Anna Deavere Smith and  August Wilson, interviews with Marina Carr and Peter Sellars, and Italian translations of works by  Marina Carr, Morris Panych, Netta Syrett and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Her translations for the  stage include contemporary Irish, English, Canadian and American plays and Anne Enright’s  memoir Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood. Her main research interests span theatre and  drama in English language, translation and adaptation in theatre, and African American literature.

Remembering Bodies, Recovering Blackness: The Theatre of African Canadian Women Playwrights